Xavi 'sat' Joao Cancelo as a precaution and 'pulled' Héctor Font again

Joao Cancel follows far of his best version in this 2024 with the FC Barcelona. In front of the Alavés, the international Portuguese returned to the left side, a place that, probably, will occupy of here at the end of season while it was in conditions to be headline. The drops, by injury, of Alejandro Balde and Marcos Alonso leave to the egarense without more alternatives that Héctor Fort for the left side, a letter that the trainer culé decided to use in the complement.

I cancel it had a bad time during all the first part covering to Álex Alone. The ones of Vitoria took advantage of the balloons to the back of the luso to generate danger and, when giving accounts of his difficulties in the mark, Xavi preferred to seat him after the rest. The own alone left irrigated to Fort in the played of the 1-2 partial of the Alavés, but the change finish seating him well to a defence that happened more difficulties of the reflected in the final marker.

Xavi descartó injuries in the staff after the party

In statements post party, Xavi Hernández descartó that any one of his variants in the complement, included the one of Cancel, were due to another muscular injury in the staff. "There are not injuries today, have finish well. Gündogan Has been a hit in the back that did not leave him run well", explained the egarense to 'DAZN'. So much the German like Pedri withdrew with some annoyance, but did not go at all grave.

In the case of Joao, his exit owed only to freshen a side where the Alavés found a lot of eases to attack in the first part. No in vain, a short seconds of initiated the crash, Pau Cubarsí brushed the penalti after a swept on 'Samu', previous long balloon to the back of the luso. In attack, the one of Barreiro neither contributed too much, to deference of a Fort that finish assisting to Vitor Roque for the 1-3 definite.